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Water Leak Repair

A leak that's already showing on a wall or a ceiling has been running for a while, so close the main and have it traced rather than waiting to see whether it spreads.

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What a pro does

Finding it is the work; the repair is usually the shorter half. The plumber closes everything, reads the meter, and establishes whether water is leaving the system and roughly how quickly. From there the house gets divided, with branches isolated one at a time so the loss can be pinned to a section instead of hunted across the whole building. Basements make a lot of that easier, since the supply runs are visible overhead and a plumber can put eyes and a hand on them rather than guessing behind drywall. Buried leaks are the hard ones here, and the ground is the reason. The gravel and cobble over the aquifer drain extraordinarily well, so a service line leaking underground often produces no puddle, no soft spot and no green patch. It just disappears. That's why the meter reading matters more than what the yard looks like. On a well property there's no meter to read at all, and the tell becomes a pump starting on its own in the middle of the night. Acoustic gear and section isolation carry the search from there, and the repaired run gets pressure tested before anything is closed back up.

Frequently asked questions

Because of what's under the yard. The coarse gravel and cobble across this area take water away downward instead of holding it near the surface, so a service line can lose water for months without producing anything visible on top. The meter is the honest witness, not the lawn.
Shut off every fixture and anything automatic like an ice maker, then watch the meter's low-flow indicator. Movement means water is going somewhere. That reading doesn't tell you where, but it's the most useful single piece of information you can give a plumber before they arrive.
Then the pump does the job the meter would. A pump that cycles on with every fixture closed is telling you the system is losing pressure somewhere. Sections of the supply can also be isolated and pressure tested one at a time to narrow down which run is bleeding.
In a basement, yes. Water working into concrete and framing raises the moisture in the space, and the damage it does to the structure and to whatever is stored down there generally outweighs the water itself. A slow leak also rarely stays slow.

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